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"Nero's Fiddling""...well said. Have you ever read the great Gatsby? It's been so many years that I only vaguely remember F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic. They indulged in conspicuous consumption and threw Bacchanalean(sp?) during the slide into the great depression if memory serves. I thought he was a bit too kind actually.

I'm the LAST person in the world to engage in class warfare Z, but this utter CRAP with Michael Jackson and the DITZ with the L.V. birthday just rubs me wrong. It's more of a sad reflection on our culture than a condemnation of the plastic weirdos that the celebrity culture venerates. The weirdos are only there because there is a market for them. That's what worries me.

American Power has a post regarding the possibility of people rioting in Los Angeles if they can't get free tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service today. The post is here, just in case you wish to read it. People really and truly do have their priorities screwed up!

fog of war is an amazing work, ducky - i'm surprised you concur. and no he was no lindsay lohan by today's standards. heck, yahoo doesn't even acknowledge his death on their front page. he's not as important as a football qb either..

yes, jingoist, it's a sad commentary on where our society is and where it's heading.

Jingo, VERY sad commentary....May ONE SOLDIER get as much attention as Jackson has, huh?

Always...that's exactly what I thought. That's a lot of money for giving a party. Well, for ANYTHING.

Chuck, I thought she was at least 30.

RaDena, I have a girlfriend who might have jury duty very close to the Staples Center Tuesday...if she gets called (She'll know tonight), she's calling in sick. Imagine the CARS in that area? (the PEOPLE? ...no way!)

Ducky...sorry, I'm with FJ on McNamara, but of course it's sad when anyone dies.

Hi Heidianne...very sad commentary, but we didn't need THIS info to make that conclusion, right? ..sadly.

BZ..thanks! I thought about the tie in after I found the image of Nero..saw that column and thought "boy, THAT says it all". We're losing this country because of OUR "Greek Columned ONE"..

Ducky, By the way... Overwhelming force has killed enough of the bad guys in previous wars. Nobody quite knew what we had there and our CIA was woefully uninformed. I think I said here MR. Z had worked some months in Iraq and knew more about their planes than our guys did. Scared the H out of me, frankly..during Desert STorm.

YOu said "Anyway, Heidianne seems to agree that our media is not necessarily concerned with informing the thinking adults among us." YOu read this blog and others and you really think that? Ducky, are you paying attention? And..."Only $70K?" Do you understand that we can all agree a hotel got a LOT more money back than that if only 3 of Lindsay's liberal hypocrite ('we must feed the poor') gazillionaire friends played a night at the tables but it's still astonishing and might bother some people in America these days?....does that register?

Jeez. Does anybody really care if the drug addicted has been has a birthday? My daughter turns 18 this week, I'm going to call RIGHT NOW and see if they will pay her to have a party. She could use the money for college.

This woman has lived a lot of life to be 23 years old. We'll visibly see that in a couple of years.

All of the big hotels in resort areas or areas where college kids hang, pay these "entertainers" to show up. That's how Paris Hilton lives these days - well that and the trust fund. I don't see her on many runways anymore.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away fromextinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must befought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day wewill spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children whatit was once like in the United States where men werefree." -- Ronald Reagan

remember

Andrew Breitbart...American Hero

Mac 'n GeeeZis my food blog...enjoy! Sorry I haven't added to it in a long while.

President Obama has done such a horrible job with the economy and foreign policy that now Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States :-)

important reminders:

We are surrounded by IDIOTS...Mr. Z

“Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail —regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have. Shameless effrontery can be a huge political asset, especially if uninformed voters outnumber those who are informed.” Thomas Sowell.........AMENTolerance is the last virtue of a dying society. (doesn't matter who wrote it, it's true and it's here)

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.... Peter Brimelow

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ~George Deukmejian

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